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Busy for the Next Fifty to Sixty Bud

https://pestlemortar.substack.com/p/busy-for-the-next-fifty-to-sixty-had-all-my-money-in-bitcoin-...
1•mithradiumn•28s ago•0 comments

Imperative

https://pestlemortar.substack.com/p/imperative
1•mithradiumn•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I decomposed 87 tasks to find where AI agents structurally collapse

https://github.com/XxCotHGxX/Instruction_Entropy
1•XxCotHGxX•5m ago•1 comments

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

https://www.theverge.com/report/875077/linux-was-a-mistake
1•timpera•6m ago•1 comments

Octrafic – open-source AI-assisted API testing from the CLI

https://github.com/Octrafic/octrafic-cli
1•mbadyl•7m ago•1 comments

US Accuses China of Secret Nuclear Testing

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-has-been-clear-wanting-new-nuclear-arms-control-treaty-...
1•jandrewrogers•8m ago•1 comments

Peacock. A New Programming Language

1•hashhooshy•13m ago•1 comments

A postcard arrived: 'If you're reading this I'm dead, and I really liked you'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2026/02/07/postcard-death-teacher-glickman/
2•bookofjoe•14m ago•1 comments

What to know about the software selloff

https://www.morningstar.com/markets/what-know-about-software-stock-selloff
2•RickJWagner•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Syntux – generative UI for websites, not agents

https://www.getsyntux.com/
3•Goose78•18m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/ab75cef97954
2•birdculture•19m ago•0 comments

AI overlay that reads anything on your screen (invisible to screen capture)

https://lowlighter.app/
1•andylytic•20m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Seafloor, be up and running with OpenClaw in 20 seconds

https://seafloor.bot/
1•k0mplex•20m ago•0 comments

Tesla turbine-inspired structure generates electricity using compressed air

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-tesla-turbine-generates-electricity-compressed.html
2•PaulHoule•22m ago•0 comments

State Department deleting 17 years of tweets (2009-2025); preservation needed

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
2•sleazylice•22m ago•1 comments

Learning to code, or building side projects with AI help, this one's for you

https://codeslick.dev/learn
1•vitorlourenco•22m ago•0 comments

Effulgence RPG Engine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFQOUe9S7dU
1•msuniverse2026•24m ago•0 comments

Five disciplines discovered the same math independently – none of them knew

https://freethemath.org
4•energyscholar•24m ago•1 comments

We Scanned an AI Assistant for Security Issues: 12,465 Vulnerabilities

https://codeslick.dev/blog/openclaw-security-audit
1•vitorlourenco•25m ago•0 comments

Amazon no longer defend cloud customers against video patent infringement claims

https://ipfray.com/amazon-no-longer-defends-cloud-customers-against-video-patent-infringement-cla...
2•ffworld•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Medinilla – an OCPP compliant .NET back end (partially done)

https://github.com/eliodecolli/Medinilla
2•rhcm•29m ago•0 comments

How Does AI Distribute the Pie? Large Language Models and the Ultimatum Game

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6157066
1•dkga•29m ago•1 comments

Resistance Infrastructure

https://www.profgalloway.com/resistance-infrastructure/
3•samizdis•34m ago•1 comments

Fire-juggling unicyclist caught performing on crossing

https://news.sky.com/story/fire-juggling-unicyclist-caught-performing-on-crossing-13504459
1•austinallegro•34m ago•0 comments

Restoring a lost 1981 Unix roguelike (protoHack) and preserving Hack 1.0.3

https://github.com/Critlist/protoHack
2•Critlist•36m ago•0 comments

GPS and Time Dilation – Special and General Relativity

https://philosophersview.com/gps-and-time-dilation/
1•mistyvales•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Witnessd – Prove human authorship via hardware-bound jitter seals

https://github.com/writerslogic/witnessd
1•davidcondrey•39m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built a clawdbot that texts like your crush

https://14.israelfirew.co
2•IsruAlpha•41m ago•2 comments

Scientists reverse Alzheimer's in mice and restore memory (2025)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251224032354.htm
2•walterbell•44m ago•0 comments

Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf]

https://vfxforth.com/flag/jfar/vol4/no4/article4.pdf
1•todsacerdoti•45m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Nallely – A Python signals/MIDI processing system inspired by Smalltalk

https://dr-schlange.github.io/nallely-midi/
17•drschlange•4mo ago
Nallely is about experimenting with signals: routing, patching, or writing small neurons that process signals and eventually sink in MIDI devices or any application connected to Nallely.

I try to get inspired by the "Systems as a Living Things" philosophy and aim, step by step, to create an auto-adaptive, resilient, distributed system. Currently, neurons live in their own thread in a session (world), and send signals (messages) to each other through patches (channels). You can also connect to a network-bus neuron to register your own neurons written in any other technology and have them interact with the existing neurons inside the world. Nallely offers an API to easily code your own reactive neurons, and provides a mobile-friendly GUI for patching everything visually.

As anyone posting something based on Python, I can already hear: "no, Python's bad, think about the performances, think about the children".

We all know about Python performances (we've all seen the animation with the moving balls and stuff), but the focus here is on dynamic and emergent behaviors, extensibility, and run time adaptability over extreme performance. Even though Nallely is written in pure Python, it runs on a Raspberry Pi 5 (ok, a powerful one), consuming less than 10% CPU on a normal usage and around 40MB of memory.

And, as someone mentioning Smalltalk, I can already hear: "Why didn't you write it in Smalltalk"? (replace Smalltalk by your prefered dialect)

I like Smalltalk, but I also like Python. Nailed it, perfect justification. Jokes aside, IMO Smalltalk is "Systems as Living Things" pushed at its extreme for designing a language, and I admire that. With Nallely, I want to explore the same philosophy: independent musical/signal-processing neurons, without relying on Smalltalk, while benefiting from Python's deployment and ecosystem advantages (compared to Smalltalk).

Comments

alehlopeh•4mo ago
Feels like ruby would have been a good choice, given it’s also a dynamic scripting language and is more closely associated with SmallTalk than python. But we like what we like.
drschlange•4mo ago
That's a really good point. I didn't consider Ruby, but not for logical or very good reasons beside the fact that it never clicked between us (I'm the guilty here). I try to take inspiration from Smalltalk usability and broad ideas, but I'm not trying to fit exactly its object model.

Anyway, I should propose a small Ruby lib to easily connect to the network-bus to create neurons. I have one in js that I targeted in the first place as it's easy to get webcam/sound working there with minimal efforts, but a Ruby one would be cool!